cash plus. looks like millions of brits could brace themselves or should be bracing themselves for a cold winter as rising energy bills make heating the home was an affordable wall after the short break. from. hidden sorrow. and hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in

a search for gold. why doesn't it bring them wealth. parents versus social workers stuck in nabbing the last stop me me that many children have become prizes to fight for why does the loss threaten families the social for it is in the form of they have a right of local minima if they feel that they have any kind of suspicion about the well being of the of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad. from what we have an

industry that is. concentrated on. for trade to. live here moscow conceived as a beacon of transparency and prosperity and since attracted criticism as a symbol of bankers greed millions have already been spent on the european central bank's new h.q. in frankfurt but law being poured in the laser dragging the project down. went to investigate. at a time when many europeans are unable to pay their mortgages and are kicked out of

their homes and spain's forced to approve a suspension of addictions after a woman killed herself in desperation the european central bank is preparing for a house warming party the european treasury's symbolic new building will be the tallest on frankford skyline when it's complete but so far it seems the projects faced skyhigh criticism first of all for its ten digit price tag. we think the project is to shoot an ugly we all speak e.c.b. to use its money more carefully something taxpayers entrusted to them. stephen meisner from germany is part of reason doesn't see any reason to spend that much money on a piece of real estate but he says he sees a reasonable explanation of why the sky's the limit for the european union's economic monopoly they never run out of money it's they just come to me and the other taxpayers they go you have to pay more you pay more of it more or maybe because it's e.c.b.

the european central bank just print the money. and while some may see an upside down logic here german m.p. mr scheffler explains it's more than just a piece of architecture. the e.c.b. wants a palace a building to demonstrate his power through a million more million less makes no difference as to make a statement about its power and credibility but that's a notion that's taken a serious knock in recent times the seventeen nation euro zone's unemployment is at a record high brussels and seized on a stereo to measures which the government's cut spending and raise taxes increase in peoples and as well as euro skepticism here it is future european central bank headquarters here in germany and the building was initially supposed to be a symbol of integrity and competence efficiency and transparency of the e.u. main financial institution but many now gloat that the project that there is already far behind shadow and over budget may be sending

a slightly different message online cynics have compared the bank's future premises with the biblical story of the tower of babel it was meant to reach up to heaven but ended up instead of bend and left as a symbol of hubris and conceit if you look at it it's considered i guess modern architecture sort of looks like sort of like it's been flattened and squeezed and turn around and it looks like a medieval sort of collapse on itself so it's kind of maybe a fitting symbol i think it's very possible that the euro itself the currency may not even be around by the time they finish the building the construction is due for completion by twenty fourteen and it's already known that the president of the e.c.b. will have a room on the forty first floor some say he will not just see a breathtaking c.t. parama he'll also have a bird's eye view of the turbulent ups and downs of his own troubled empire the ill fated euro zone. an r.t. germany. for millions in the u.k.

the cold winter may be more biting than ever soaring energy prices look set to drive people into what's been hailed as fuel poverty where the only way to stay warm is an extra blanket here's artie's laura smith with the story in full. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this plot it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take few libel from the ceiling and i only use one in my it's only supermarket jeremih you just one like trying to cut down. off the bill next time but in regard to bill. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come back to see how she'll face this is even bigger challenge five of the six big energy

companies have announced price rises of around ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an increasingly common form of poverty poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills. and we've seen these recent price increases pushed three hundred fourteen founts and people into fuel poverty that's on top of an estimated seven million people who already have one survey ahead of this winter found energy prices were the biggest concern for consumers ninety percent said the cost of energy was their main household worry ahead of rising costs for food petrol and mortgage payments julie shows me her energy bills carefully conserve to chart the inexorable rise since she moved in in two thousand

and seven she's afraid that this winter her children's health will suffer again in a way that when accomplice or his blanket his socks and the children just put it on the moment call two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven there were sick. try to be mean. while julie's children are getting sick the energy companies are profiting british gas prices are up six percent is on track to make one point four billion pounds in profits this year and e.t.f. with the highest price rise of ten point eight percent announced profits of one point six billion in february where are you going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go you. know. r.t. london. when out of some of today's news in brief at least five people have reportedly been killed and more than seventy injured by a bomb attack in northwest pakistan the blast went off in a shop on the roof of

a shiite muslim procession the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attack it's the second explosion to hit the district in less than twenty four hours taking the number killed over the weekend to thirteen today's brass comes despite attempts to mobile phone services which the authorities believed were being used to trigger remote devices. officials from the democratic republic of congo are holding talks with rebels in uganda the group known as twenty three seize control of a key city in congo's east last week and threatened to overthrow the government the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand people displaced since the rising began in april and twenty three fighters accuse the government of failing to all of the terms of a two thousand and nine peace deal and incorporate them into the national army. the west's controversial use of unmanned military aircrafts in hot spots around the world looks set to go on with the british government developing new technology but as. the locals close to the testing ground don't share their government's

excitement. the victims in tribal regions of pakistan yemen and afghanistan it's the last sound heard before bloodshed in syria is a constant worrying that gets louder before it becomes visible but for residents of the quiet coastal town of abba porth in west wales the sound is synonymous with daily life this is the area where the r.a.f. tests its watch keep a drone from as you can see there's one taking off behind me as we speak in good weather the drones take off throughout the day and during the night and as you can hear the noise is so high pitched and dominating that local residents have called this area the buzz box. full of people the noise is a great disturbance because. of whining noise send they fly over this

quite regularly the welsh government build it as a state of the art technology park that would create four to five hundred much needed jobs for the community the reality a half deserted site where the ministry of defense employs about thirty people to help test the watch keeper there is a sense of frustration in the area a number of people who were for it in the beginning. because they didn't realise the level of nuisance that there was going to be there is behind the development of drones say it means less soldiers come home from war zones in body bags but civilian casualties piling up we know from pakistan that somewhere around two to three thousand people have been killed in drone strikes because of these unmanned systems it's a lot easier to go to war and therefore there will be much more warfare and the world isn't safe the british government has already spent two billion pounds on development but they're about to commit another two billion on

a new armed drone. it is spent it could be spent on hospitals and schools rather than on killing machines despite drastic government cuts on welfare spending financing for the drones isn't up for debate to the dismay of locals the daily testing along with the blood curdling noise drones on. our t. west wales. one of the few minutes from now to discuss is the u.s. government spying on americans with former national security official turned whistleblower william binney that interview next i'll be back with more news in about fifteen minutes. the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest but here in new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all storm as in much of the world it's

disappearing at a catastrophic rate. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forest of the put more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forests or nets and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that the twelve tractor trails are very fresh which

in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it. there's no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone what will the people who live afterwards do it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being. scott still around the world and perhaps is still small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony nature. i . i.

my guests today is william binney a whistle blower former national security agency official he was one of the first to reveal the agency's massive domestic spying program mr binney revealed that n.s.a. sought and received access to telecommunications companies domestic and international billing records that it has intercepted somewhere between fifteen to twenty trillion communications mr binnie also claims that in order to cover its warrantless surveillance the agency concealed it under the patriotic sounding name terrorist surveillance program mr beaty think you so much for coming in light of the patricius slash alan scandal while the public is so focused on the details of their family drama one may argue that the real scandal in this whole story is the power the reach of the surveillance state i mean if we take general allen

thousands of his personal e-mails have been sifted through private correspondence i mean it's not like any of those man was planning an attack on america does it prove does this scandal prove the notion that there is no such thing as privacy in a surveillance state. well yes that's what i've been basically saying for quite some time is that the f.b.i. has access to the data collected which is basically the e-mails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have at the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on the surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this can happen to to anyone if they become a target for whatever reason. if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i. or other agencies of the government can go into their database pull all that data they've collected over down on them over the years and reanalyze it also

retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least and it's not just about those who could be planning who could be a threat to national security but but also those who could be just it's everybody i thought at the end naris device simply takes in the entire line so it takes all the data. in fact they advertise the way they advertise they they can process the lines at session rates which means ten gigabit lines that's the nearest. not the s.t.s. sixty four hundred but the i forget that this is another device that they have that does that but it does tend give the take ten gigabits that's why they're building bluffdale because they have to have more storage because they can't figure out what's important so there's a storing everything there so all the e-mails going to be stored there for the future but right now it's stored in different places around the country but it is

being collected in is that has f.b.i. has various into it collected in ball quick valley even requesting. providers and then what about google you know releasing that it's this bi annual transparency report and saying that the government's demands for personal data is at an all time high and for for all of those requests in the u.s. google says they complied with the government demands ninety percent of the time but they're still saying that they are making the request it's not like it's all being funneled into into that storage what do you say to that well i would assume that that's just simply another source of the same data that they're already collecting. mark klein in his declarations in the court about the eighteenth the facility in san francisco documented the n.s.a. room inside that ace t.n.t. facility where they had narrowest devices to collect data off the fiber optic lines inside the united states so that's kind of

a powerful device that would collect everything that was being sent it could collect on the order of one hundred over one hundred billion one thousand character e-mails a day one device. so that gives you an idea of the magnitude of the kind of collection that's going on well you're saying they sift through those are healing in so billions of e-mails i wonder how do they prioritize i mean is it like foreign nationals first what what's the how do they prioritize how do they i think trip i don't think they're well first of all i don't think is in the filtering they're just going to store it all ok so then it's just a matter of selecting it when you want it so if they want to target you they would take your attributes and go into that database and pull out all your data that's what i was going to ask are they reading my e-mail. i should say there was no yes ghana's then generally in my e-mail. do you think now that i said that they will stop looking into my help i don't think they will make any difference no if they

have they had you on the target list you're on the list or are you on target but i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years. so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them do you think we should all like leave messages for the n.s.a. you know mailbox sure mr binney you blew the whistle on the agency when george w. bush was president with president obama in office in your opinion has anything changed that the agency in their surveillance program what in what direction is an instruction taking program changes that it's getting worse. they're doing more that's why they i mean he is supporting the building of the buff they'll facility which is over two billion dollars they're spending on story john of data so that means that they're collecting a lot more now and they need more storage for it so that that the syllabi by my

calculations that i submitted in a sworn affidavit to the court for the electronic frontier foundation lawsuit against innocent. would hold on the order of five thousand exabytes or five zeta bytes of data just a current storage capacity that's being advertised on the web that you can buy currently and that's not talking about what they have in the near future ok so what are they going to do with all of that ok they're storing it why should anybody anybody be concerned well if you ever get on their enemies list like a trace did or for whatever reason then you can be drawn into that. surveillance do you think they word that general petraeus who was idolized by the same administration when general allen well there's certainly there's certainly some questions that have to be asked like why would they targeted to begin with. what

law were they breaking or what probable cause did they have in beginning even so zero portray as i saw one would argue that ok they could have been there could have been a security breach or something like that with but with general allen i don't quite understand because what they were looking into his private e-mails of took to this to this woman and well this is that's the whole point the whole point is what president gore there is a telling and why do they i'm not sure what the internal knowledge like this is yeah well that's part of the problem this government doesn't want things in the public that it's not a government a transparent government so they whatever they're doing whatever reason they had the motive and whatever the motivation was i'm not privy to it so i don't really know but i certainly think that there was something going on the background that made them target those fellows i mean otherwise why would they be doing it there is

no crime there it seems that the public is divided between those who think that the government surveillance program violates their civil liberties and those who say i have nothing to hide so why should i care what do you say to those who think that you're concerned that the the problem is if they think they're not doing anything that's wrong they don't get to define that the central government does they do the central government defines what is right and wrong and whether or not they target you so it's not up to the individual to even if they think they're doing something wrong if their position on something is against what the administration has then then they could easily become a target tell me about the most outrageous thing that you came across during your work at the n.s.a. well. the violations of the constitution and any number of laws that existed at the time. that that was the that was the part that i could not be associated but that's

why i left there they were building social networks on who who is communicating and with whom inside this country so that your entire social network of everybody of every us citizen was being compiled over time so they're taking it from one company alone roughly three hundred twenty million records a day that's over time that that's probably accumulated up to close to twenty trillion over the years the original program that we put together to handle this to be able to identify terrorists anywhere in the world. and alert anyone that they were and under jeopardy would have would have been able to do that by encrypting everybody's communications except those who were targets so that in essence you would protect their identities and the information about them until you could develop probable cause and then once you showed probable cause then you could do

a decrease in target them and we could do that and isolate those people all along that wasn't a problem at all there was no difficulty in that but it sounds very difficult and very complicated easier to take everything and then you know it's it's easier to use the graphing techniques if you will of the relationships for the world to filter out data so you don't have to handle all that data and it doesn't it doesn't burden you with a lot more information to look at then you really want to look then you really need to solve the problem so do you think that the agency doesn't have the filters now you know you have received a callaway award for civic courage i congratulate you on the website in the press release it says it is awarded to those who stand up for constitutional rights and american values that great risk to their personal and professional lives . under the code of spy ethics i don't know if there is such

a thing i assume not your former colleagues they probably will look upon you as a traitor how do you look back at that oh that's pretty easy they're violating the foundation of this entire country what our entire foundation of what how why this entire government was formed was founded with the constitution and the rights given to the people in the country under that constitution they're in violation of that and under executive order one three five two six section one point seven governing classification you cannot classify information that just to cover up a crime which this is and that was signed by president obama also president bush signed it earlier executive orders very similar one if any of this comes into the supreme court and they rule it unconstitutional then the entire house of cards of the government falls what are the chances of that what are the odds well the

government's doing the best they can to try to keep it out of court and of course we're trying to do the best we can to get into court. so we just thought it deserves a a a ruling from the supreme court ultimately. the court is supposed to protect the constitution all these all these people in government take an oath to defend the constitution and they're not living up to their oath of office thank you thank you for the ain't.

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